"The way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to."

"Nothing is so disgusting to our manners and morals as the practice of gambling, and of horse-racing, which is a species of gambling."

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions, have a bias to look to the civil arm for support, and to awe with civil penalties."

"On this foundation I hope the whole may be made to stand; and that from this principle, every generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own h…"

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an excha…"